by Alex Verboon
In preparation of doing some Group Policy related things, I decided to extend my Home Lab AD infrastructure running on Windows Server 2003, with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2 domain controllers. Because at some stage I want to Read More …
During the past 2 days I have been looking at the Windows 7 BranchCache feature. After hearing, reading and talking about this for months, it was about time to do some hands-on stuff. I used the BranchCache Early Adopter’s Guide Read More …
As I wrote the previous blog entry I started thinking about all the other products I come across in my daily professional life and started creating the table shown below. For those that are still running Windows 2000 Server systems, Read More …
On April 14th mainstream support for Windows XP will end. for the next 5 years the operating system goes into extended support. The table below illustrates the differences between mainstream and extended support. The Microsoft Windows XP product page explains Read More …
for those that are left-handed, have a look at these mouse pointers on MSDN Code Gallery. These left-handed Windows Vista mouse pointers are designed for left-handed users. They point to the right, instead of the left, which may feel more Read More …
Microsoft has released ACT 5.5 (Application Compatibility Toolkit). ACT 5.5 provides support for pre-RTM version of Windows7. To learn more about ACT 5.5 I recommend reading “Windows 7 Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5: Interview with Jeremy Chapman”. ACT 5.5. can be Read More …
Today I found a nice utility that allows you to easily extract individual files from an MSI package. The tool is called “less miséreables”. it’s a kind of a funny name, but it does the job. To extract a file, Read More …
Today we once more ran into an issue caused by a corrupted file transfer. I mention “once more” because this is something I see happening all the time. So let me drop a couple of words on this. When putting Read More …